From the Ted Talk "Cameron Herold: Let's raise kids to be entrepreneurs"

Unscramble the Blue Letters

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Open Cloze

Allowances teach kids the wrong ______. Allowances, by nature, are ________ kids to think about a job. An entrepreneur doesn't ______ a regular paycheck. _________ is breeding kids at a young age to expect a regular ________. That's wrong, for me, if you want to _____ entrepreneurs. What I do with my kids, nine and seven, is teach them to walk around the _____ and the yard, looking for stuff that needs to get done. Come and tell me what it is. Or I'll say, "Here's what I need done." And then, you know what we do? We negotiate. They go around looking for what it is, then we negotiate what they'll get paid. They don't have a regular check, but they have opportunities to find more stuff, and learn the skill of negotiating and of finding opportunities.

Solution

paycheck

raise

house

habits

expect

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allowance

Original Text

Allowances teach kids the wrong habits. Allowances, by nature, are teaching kids to think about a job. An entrepreneur doesn't expect a regular paycheck. Allowance is breeding kids at a young age to expect a regular paycheck. That's wrong, for me, if you want to raise entrepreneurs. What I do with my kids, nine and seven, is teach them to walk around the house and the yard, looking for stuff that needs to get done. Come and tell me what it is. Or I'll say, "Here's what I need done." And then, you know what we do? We negotiate. They go around looking for what it is, then we negotiate what they'll get paid. They don't have a regular check, but they have opportunities to find more stuff, and learn the skill of negotiating and of finding opportunities.